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20) Frederic in a manner truly heroick, spluttered out to him her intention of being married the next Day.

To one in his predicament who posesed les personal Courage than Frederic was master of, such a speech would have been Death; but he not being the least terrified boldly replied, "Dammé Elfrida you may be married tomorrow but I wont."

This answer distresed her too much for her delicate Constitution. She accordingly fainted was in such a hurry to have a succesion of fainting fits, that she had scarcely patience enough to recover from one before she fell into another.